About This Course
Linked Data and Solid was a post-academic evening course for people with a computer science background who wanted to apply Linked Data and Solid in practice. The course focused on interoperability across multiple servers, applications, organisations, and personal data stores.
It combined conceptual lectures with hands-on exercises, starting from RDF basics and ending in a project where participants brought the different technologies together.
Editions
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2022
First Edition
Ran from 29 September 2022 until 22 December 2022.
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2023
Second Edition
Ran from 28 September 2023 until 11 January 2024.
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2024
Third Edition
Ran from 26 September 2024 until 16 January 2025.
Topics Covered
- RDF, Linked Data serialisations, URIs, vocabularies, and publishing over HTTP
- Solid specifications, WebIDs, access control, and the Community Solid Server
- Web querying with SPARQL, Linked Data Fragments, and Linked Data Event Streams
- Vocabulary design, ontology engineering, SHACL, ShEx, and RDF validation
- RML-based knowledge graph generation from non-RDF data sources
- Usage control, data spaces, stream reasoning, and interoperable data architectures
Course Team
The course was scientifically coordinated by Pieter Colpaert and Pieter Heyvaert, with lectures by researchers and practitioners from Ghent University, IDLab, Digitaal Vlaanderen, Athumi, and the broader Linked Data and Solid community.
Historic Information
The original UGain page remains available as an archive: Linked Data & Solid at UGain.
The KNoWS course overview also lists Linked Data & Solid as a past course with editions in 2022, 2023, and 2024.